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The 2009 Beauty Awards

Heather Bouzan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:00:00 GMT

There's a reason why we feel worse about cheating on a hairstylist than we do about cheating on a boyfriend. Without our regular trims, bi-monthly facials, religiously kept waxing appointments, and the occasional full-body splurge, we're not sure we could continue as functioning members of society. Okay, we're sure we could function, but it wouldn't - and we wouldn't - be pretty. So we've set out to honor the people, places, and treatments that make Boston beauty...

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Nights of the Roundtable

Erica Corsano — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT

Shot on site at the Living Room, Boston. It may seem counterintuitive that a city like Boston, with its rich history steeped in forward-thinking, revolutionary attitudes, has a nightlife scene largely dominated by a backwards, neo-puritanical matrix of legacy laws upheld by a deeply stubborn old-boy network. This network could prevent Boston from truly becoming the metropolitan city it has the potential to be. This frustrates me, my staff, my friends, and my various colleagues who work, live,...

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Boogie Nights

Chris Faraone — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:00:00 GMT

The STUFF crew sounded like a gang of valley girls in this year's first editorial meeting about the nightlife issue. "There's absolutely nowhere to dance in this city," cried one editor, ripping gulps off her imported bottled water. "Tell me about it," bemoaned a lifestyle contributor. "It's all the same places with the same electro grooves. It's like A Night at the Roxbury every night. So unfortunate." About five minutes into the discussion -...

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Stuffed: The 2009 Dining Awards

MC Slim JB — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

It’s been a brutal year for dining out, with recession-cowed consumers clutching their wallets, panning for bargains, and shunning the posh places they frequented in better times. Calamity loomed everywhere: storied old venues shuttered, crops failed, and an entire city block of beloved restaurants — Thornton’s, Umi, Sorento’s, Greek Isles, Rod Dee, and El Pelón — literally went up in flames. But the news isn’t all dire: the intrepid industry soldiered on, tapping its creativity to...

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An Unseasonably Warm Wintour

Shaula Clark — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

With her severe pageboy bob and eye-shielding sunglasses, Vogue’s editor in chief, Anna Wintour, has attained near-mythical status in the both the publishing and fashion industries. Dubbed “nuclear Wintour,” she’s widely thought to be the inspiration for uber-bitch boss Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. But filmmaker R.J. Cutler wants us to know there’s more to the fashion-mag mogul than pointy words and killer instinct. With documentary The September Issue — a cinéma vérité...

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Style Stories

Scott Kearnan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

When it comes to stylishness, Boston doesn’t always get a lot of credit. Talk to some fashionistas, and they’d have you believe Boston style is so staid that we’re all still marching around in tri-corner hats and pilgrim shoes. That perception, though, is as ill-fitting as last season’s denim. Maybe we don’t have Madison Avenue on our side, but we still have plenty of fashion-forward folks strutting our streets like a catwalk. But beyond that, it’s important to recognize the...

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Almost Famous

Stuff Boston — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

The 101.7 WFNX/Boston Phoenix Best Music Poll provides the perfect backdrop for a sneak peek at rocker-chic fall fashion. [Click here to continue ... ] Photographed and Directed by Michael Diskin Produced by Erica Corsano Styled by Liana Peterson Models: Jade of Maggie, Inc. and Sam Endicott of The Bravery Makeup: Dani Wagener of Shu Uemura Hair: Maria Nieves of Bradley & Diegel Salon Special Thanks to the Purple Shamrock

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Fallen: Fall Fashion 2009

Michael Diskin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Get inspired by fall’s wearable metallics, striking silhouettes, and sexy, slouchy dresses. This season, drama is easy to wear. [Click here to contine ... ] Photographed and directed by Michael Diskin Produced by Erica Corsano Styled by Liana Peterson Models: Katelyn Loren and Kacy Emmett, of Maggie, Inc. Makeup: Tavi de la Rosa of Shu Uemura and Rose Fortuna Hair: Derek Yuen of James Joseph Salon

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Culinary Cliffs Notes

Ruth Tobias — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A Faraway Foodie Schools Us on What She Misses Most About the Bean's Cuisine You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone, as everyone from Joni Mitchell to Cinderella has sung — and as a former Bostonian, I can add a blue note or two to their chorus. In 2007, after 10 years as a food writer in Beantown, I moved to Denver for love. But you can’t eat love. And so it is that sometimes, as I’m barreling through yet another bowl of addictive pork green chile, I find myself shedding a...

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Honor roll

Scott Kearnan — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Notable Boston Alumni Who've Gone to the Head of the Class With the annual influx of college students returning for the fall semester, we can’t help but wonder what brilliant, beautiful minds will next emerge from Boston’s famed universities. However, we’re not simply some intellectual filling station where students come to gas up their IQ before going out to cure cancer, solve the energy crisis, and buy the world a Coke. Our schools make us a city where interesting, ambitious people...

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Buzzed in the Berkshires

Sara Faith Alterman — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:53:00 GMT

Western Massachusetts has long been a considered a pinnacle of idyllic New England, a perfect spot to retreat from the mania of urban bustle and the snore-worthy monotony of the suburbs. Native Americans touted the healing properties of the crystalline mountain spring water that flowed from the Berkshires, and in the nineteenth century, luxury spas popped up all over the mountains to make good use of the gorgeous scenery and the “medicinal” waters. The fashionably weary from across the region...

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Belly Up

Scott Kearnan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:29:00 GMT

Everyone has a favorite dive bar. Even the snootiest among us like to go slummin’ for happy hour every so often. And in Boston, there are dive bars aplenty. Take a crawl through the Bean’s (un)finest dives, and you’ll soon realize why so many of the clientele often look like they just escaped from prison. We’re talking small, dank, windowless spaces where the bathrooms haven’t been scrubbed in years and the air is thick with the acrid odor of cheap hooch and questionable decisions. Stick...

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Hot Tips

Kara Baskin — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:41:00 GMT

YOUR GUIDE TO SURVIVING SUMMER IN THE CITY The heat is on, and perhaps you’re panicking. After all, when the first hint of humidity arrives, this town clears out faster than a Lauryn Hill concert. Are you foreseeing a July spent fending off the sweaty advances of tourists at Tia’s and a sullen August of sulking next to an inflatable pool? Fret not: Bostonians sticking around for the season have no reason to envy those ribbon belt wearers bound for Newport, the Vineyard, or...

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Day Tripping

Scott Kearnan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

TWO SUMMERTIME GETAWAYS FOR UNREPENTANT URBANITES Admit it: the thought of a week at a lake house gives you a major case of hives. Yes, a secluded spell in the woods of Maine might seem like paradise to some, but driving three hours just to cozy up with some poison oak and have crickets as your only company is not your idea of a summertime escape. Your definition of getting away from it all doesn’t involve giving up your love for culture, cuisine, or cocktails. Sure, if a little...

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Deconstructing dinner: An Investigation Into the Origins of the Ingredients in One Delish Homegrown Dish

Sara Faith Alterman — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

It’s six o’clock. Do you know where your dinner has been? The answer’s not “the kitchen,” smartass. What I mean is, when you look down at the entrée you’ve ordered, do you ever consider that, unless you know its exact origins, the precise journey it took from its source to your plate, it’s really just the equivalent of mystery meat? Not so appetizing, huh? The “locavore” phenomenon has, like many other epicurean trends, finally made a blip on the mainstream radar of Boston diners. We’re...

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